Making a Xylophone

This Xylophone was made for my 6 week year old Son Sebastian Shaw. The materials used were Walnut, Cherry and Rosewood.

Building Resources
1. Resonator Pins

2. Xylophone Directions

[monodzukurijiji]

How nice! Thank you for sharing the details of how to make a xylophone.

[mechasartre]

For viewers, if you suspend the tone bars using rubber grommets then you’ll get a long sustained note instead of the staccato tone.

[APerchOfPillows]

Sweet video! And thank you for the links!!

[williamjhunter]

Can the bars be suspended on linen thread tied horizontally and still sound good?
Im about to try to build one this year, just trying to stay with all natural materials.
My wood will be Madras Throrn. A very ringy tone wood.

[ninoadp]

Just had a dream on my B-day of someone playing a homemade xylophone shaped like a ----. It sounded and looked beautiful...guess I'll have to tackle this some day. This must have been the furthest thing from my mind...

[eli]

What kind of finish did you use for the bars? Thank you😁

[federicorosato]

How did you calculate the exact leinght for the correct tuning of the sticks?

[victrolalacasa]

Hi Jessie - I cannot find your website - hoping that you can help as I want this to be a project with my college music students - thanks - enjoyed your video so much

[richardayella]

How did you attach the bars? Thank you

[marshmallowfluff]

are all of the notes on this xylophone in tune, even without the coves cut out?

[danielstring]

great videos and links! i was wondering, if i wanted to make lower pitched notes (like 1 octave down), how can i find the lengths of the each bar?

[cihanalicelikyurekli]

How to set the entonation of the bars?

[lindsaylaw]

What kind of wood do you use for the notes?

[randyfolsom]

Looks nice. What kind of wood did you use for the bars?

[jerkoardalic]

Does the type of wood matter alot cuz im making one for my preschool group nad i dont really have alot of wood on stock

[madmaxbike]

I teach you how to tuned the bars to musical notes if you want ?

[guillermomrltz]

This is not in tune!!! Beautiful yes, good job yes, but is not tuned!!!
I’m musician, the xylophone is not in tune, you play real E when you suppose to be playing C. (That could be ok, because you create a xylophone en E) but then when you play the low notes (E G G E D G E in your suppose “C”) it’s out of tune. The xylophone it self is not tuned, in the low register sound soo weird

[argi]

Thanks for first demonstrating the sound. After hearing that, I'm out